As the oldest college in the United States, Harvard University has a long tradition
of academic dress. Harvard gown facings bear crow's-feet emblems near the
yoke, a symbol unique to Harvard, made from flat braid in colours distinctive of
the wearer's qualification or degree. Crow's-feet are double for earned degrees,
and ...

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The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its
most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth
century.

Mar 5, 2016 ...Harvard Law School has moved to drop its official shield after months of protests
over the symbol's link to 18th-century slave traders. The decision comes from a
committee that was formed to examine the issue by Dean Martha L. Minow after
protests began against the emblem last fall, followed by the ...

Jan 29, 2016 ... A new wave of international student activism has targeted names, mascots,
statues and other symbols of historical figures at colleges and universities. ... In
November 2015, Martha L. Minow, dean of Harvard Law School, convened a
committee to reconsider the school's controversial seal — the crest of the ...

Jun 1, 2011 ... Immortality is one of the language symbols engendered by a class of
experiences to which we refer as the varieties of religious experience. This term
is perhaps no longer the technically best one but it has the advantage of a great
precedent, especially here at Harvard. Hence, its use will be convenient to ...

James and Marilyn meet at Harvard, and Nath's imminent enrollment there
haunts the entire book. However, each of these characters has a very different
relationship with the institution. Harvard represents James' academic
accomplishments—he completes both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees
there—but it also ...

In physics, it takes three laws to explain 99% of the data; in finance, it takes more
than 99 laws to explain about 3%.” So quipped MIT finance professor Andrew Lo
at a dinner I once attended. Economists, he added, consequently suffer from
physics envy. Now, I was trained as a theoretical physicist in the […]

Harvard Business Revie^^7 more or less careful of how he distributed his
pennies. To do this meant giving closer atten- tion to the concrete value of what
he bought, to the durability of the fabric, the quantity of the food, the sturdiness of
the building materials. The philosophy of business was also oriented around
these ...